FIrst of all, why are we spying on Russia? We've been friends for a while. And they are certainly not any sort of a threat.

In any case, it seems to me that they were just looking to try to embarass the US by saying, "we caught one of your spies!!" When in fact, all they did was found some poor dolt hanging around there, threw a wig on his head, said they found some "spy stuff", and made a big media stink out of it.